1. The Unpleasant Realities Of Christianity
Ladies and gentlemen? I must give you a trigger warning. If you are a religious extremist or any kind of Christian fundamentalist, what I have to say about religion is going to be very harsh and may upset you.
So you're walking down the staircase in your home and the large wooden ball attached on top of the end of the staircase on the banister bangs into your elbow, even though you did everything to avoid it. You probably already have tendonitis or pain in that same elbow from something else, and this incident is doing nothing to help the situation. Now your elbow is probably going to hurt for at least four days, if not four weeks.
Perhaps science one day invents a healing machine. Therefore, you want to purchase one so that you don't have to worry about pain in your elbow if something bangs against it again. However, some religious extremist organizes a demonstration or some kind of political action to keep this machine from going onto the market, because he or she feels that everyone has the duly obligation to suffer in the name of God and Jesus Christ,
You may have heard of Judie Brown ("Judith A. Brown") of the American Life League. She has an infatuation over believing that embryonic stem cell research is somehow a form of child murder or infanticide, even though she has never produced even one shred of scientific evidence to this very day to back up such claims. You'll notice that, like so many other religious extremists, Mrs. Brown will run her mouth about how everyone must suffer in the name of God.
Then you notice that it's always someone else's suffering that Mrs. Brown preaches about. If she were the one suffering and she needed embryonic stem cell research to cure herself, she'd likely find one loophole or another in her belief system to justify her access to it. She's not fooling anybody except herself. She is pure evil and hypocrisy.
If you're an agnostic like me, you cannot see Mrs. Brown's stance on embryonic stem cell research as anything other than a political agenda that she wishes to shove down everyone's throats. If you're suffering in pain in that event, you're not going to hesitate to use embryonic stem cell research or the likes to get cured. Why should you suffer in the name of some god you have never seen, you don't love, and you don't believe in? A fairy-tale god is not going to make your pain go away.
This is not the first time that I have published an article about this topic, and it probably will not be the last time that I do so either. Fact has it that religious extremists are the most nefarious and callous individuals on the planet Earth.
When you see all the pain and suffering in the world, you may sometimes wonder if Jesus Christ really suffered enough on the cross. Then again, you have to wonder if he ever really existed.
2. The Hypocrisy Of Child Murder In Christianity
It's a Sunday today, and a number of people are in church here in the United States. I'm not in church, because I don't believe in the existence of any all so merciful god. I don't deny his existence either, but I don't believe that he truly cares about humanity if he does actually exist.
I am not a major fan of abortion, even though I realize that there are people that sharply disagree with me on the issue of abortion. I was also able to see why there were people that wanted to get Roe v. Wade overturned in the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS"), because these unborn babies are voiceless without someone standing up for them.
Nevertheless, the concern that I did have about this same decision by SCOTUS was that religious extremists were going to see it as an opportunity to seek legislation or stare decisis to outlaw embryonic stem cell research despite that it has nothing to do with abortion. In other words, anti-abortionists and pro-lifers cannot even agree upon when actual life begins.
What is particularly interesting is that even though religious extremists like Judie Brown will argue that life begins at conception to support their so-called argument against embryonic stem cell research, they never seem to have any problem with the murders and brutally homicidal sacrifices of children that are described throughout the Bible and are actually justified therein.
In other words, if we were to assume for the sake of argument and ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT that religious extremists' assertion that life begins at conception were true, they would still not have any moral high ground to oppose embryonic stem cell research. Whenever a Catholic priest gets arrested for sexually molesting a 7- or 8-year-old child, these Bible thumpers always seem to have the perfect excuse for his crimes.
The fact that these religious extremists never speak out against the teachings of the Bible about child sacrifice and the murder of children demonstrates that these people don't truly believe that embryonic stem cells are little people that need to be saved. They merely indulge in what can be best described as epicaricacy. That is, they enjoy the suffering and agony of others to entertain themselves by denying others important medical care in the form embryonic stem cell research.
Below is a video that describes the murder of innocent children in the name of religion. If God truly exists, he doesn't appear to be a very compassionate individual who has any regard for the vulnerability of children.
The Bible Condones And Even Encourages The Unconscionable Murder Of Children
According to the Bible, even God himself has murdered innocent children. He asked fathers to murder their own children as a sacrifice to him.
Religious extremists need to shut up about embryonic stem cell research, because at least it is saving lives and curing harmful diseases. These Bible thumpers will never find a way to prove that life begins at conception, because it is nothing more than an ideology that they pulled out of their backsides rather than any kind of fact-based science.
3. Final Thoughts
If medical science comes up with some kind of evidence proving that life begins at conception, then I will be the first to admit to being wrong about embryonic stem cell research. However, for now, we all need to fight any legislative attempts to ban it or defund it. People's lives could depend upon it.
I remember back when President George W. Bush cut Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The late Nancy Reagan pleaded and begged President Bush not to ban it, because she saw her own husband ("President Ronald Reagan") suffer and die from Alzheimer's disease; and embryonic stem cell research could have saved him.
Nonetheless, as the hypocrite that President Bush was, he went ahead and issued an executive order to ban the Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. He'd cite verses from the Bible and denounced embryonic stem cell research as infanticide, while he took no reluctance in ordering the United States Armed Forces to bomb villages in the Middle East where innocent children were present.
The Bush bashers earned their right to belittle President Bush. Why he ever entertained the notion of running for reelection in 2004 is beyond my comprehension. It only goes to show you that we should never have elected a religious fanatic to the Oval Office. President Donald J. Trump was able to tear Jeb Bush apart successfully during the Republican presidential debates in 2015 and 2016, because Jeb Bush kept getting on the defensive about his brother, President Bush.
At the end of the day, religion simply has no place in modern medicine. Christian nationalism is pulling our society downward as Americans. I don't oppose religion per se, because I realize that people find peace and solace through prayer and worship. However, I stand by Neil deGrasse Tyson's position that religion should not be allowed to interfere with medical science or any kind of science. Christian Fascism must be stopped.
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